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http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-02-13/obama-s-minimum-wage-increase-dismissed-by-boehner.html
(Bloomberg) -- U.S. House Speaker John Boehner, House Majority Leader
Eric Cantor and other Republican leaders speak at a news conference
about the legislative agenda laid out in President Barack Obama's
State of the Union address.
LAUGH..LAUGH..LAUGH..
Republicans in Congress are making clear that little of it will
happen.
House Speaker John Boehner, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and
rank-and-file Republicans opposed many of the details Obama set out in
his second-term agenda in his State of the Union address to Congress.
They signaled that the political fights of the past aren’t over yet.
Boehner dismissed the president’s proposal to raise the federal
minimum wage. Republicans also gave a negative response to Obama’s
call for new legislation to curb greenhouse-gas emissions that
scientists say drives global warming.
“When you raise the price of employment, guess what happens? You get
less of it,” Boehner, an Ohio Republican, told reporters at a news
conference yesterday in Washington. “Why do we want to make it harder
for small employers to hire people?”
In his Feb. 12 speech to a joint session of Congress, Obama proposed
raising the hourly federal minimum wage to its highest inflation-
adjusted value since 1981, under President Ronald Reagan, according to
a White House fact sheet.
Obama’s speech was a “go-through-the motions laundry list of things”
he’d “like to do,” said South Dakota Senator John Thune, a member of
the chamber’s Republican leadership.
‘Won’t Pass’
“Minimum wage won’t pass the House, climate-change won’t pass the
House,” Thune said. “Those are things he would probably have a hard
time getting a lot of Democrats to vote for.”
The same is true for Obama’s call for guaranteeing pre- school
programs for all 4-year-olds, he said. “How do you pay for it?” he
said. By saying the programs wouldn’t “add a single dime to the
deficit” Obama is expecting Congress to raise taxes “to finance all
these new programs,” he said.
Six Senate Democrats seeking re-election next year in states that
supported Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney in 2012 “are
going to be hard pressed to vote for” new tax revenue beyond increases
that have been passed, Thune said.
The president also urged Congress to pass immigration legislation and
stricter gun-control measures and asked for $50 billion in
infrastructure spending.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell called Obama’s speech a
“liberal boilerplate that any Democratic lawmaker could have given at
any time in recent memory.”
“He advocated tax reform, but mostly as a way to increase the size of
government, not as a way to increase our competitiveness,” McConnell,
a Kentucky Republican, said in a floor speech. “He spoke of workers’
minimum wages, instead of their maximum potential.”
The speaker’s comments on Obama’s proposal to raise the hourly minimum
wage to $9 from $7.25 by the end of 2015 reflected a longstanding
Republican argument that such increases only depress employment among
young and low-skilled workers.
The last federal minimum-wage increase was in 2009, the first year of
Obama’s presidency, though it came out of a 2007 law signed by
President George W. Bush. A new increase would affect an estimated 15
million people. Obama also suggested making the minimum wage rise with
the cost of living.
Boehner signaled an increase had little prospect of passing the
Republican-controlled House.
“A lot of people who are being paid the minimum wage are being paid
that because they come to the workforce with no skills and this makes
it harder for them to acquire the skills they need in order to climb
that ladder successfully,” Boehner said.
Representative Jack Kingston, Georgia Republican, said a minimum-wage
measure would “have a chance” if it is accompanied by a “business
package of tax credits and expensing” rules to help small businesses.
Obama needs to make “a good argument of here’s how we can grow jobs
and help small business,” he said in an interview.
LAUGH..LAUGH..LAUGH..
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-02-13/obama-s-minimum-wage-increase-dismissed-by-boehner.html
(Bloomberg) -- U.S. House Speaker John Boehner, House Majority Leader
Eric Cantor and other Republican leaders speak at a news conference
about the legislative agenda laid out in President Barack Obama's
State of the Union address.
LAUGH..LAUGH..LAUGH..
Republicans in Congress are making clear that little of it will
happen.
House Speaker John Boehner, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and
rank-and-file Republicans opposed many of the details Obama set out in
his second-term agenda in his State of the Union address to Congress.
They signaled that the political fights of the past aren’t over yet.
Boehner dismissed the president’s proposal to raise the federal
minimum wage. Republicans also gave a negative response to Obama’s
call for new legislation to curb greenhouse-gas emissions that
scientists say drives global warming.
“When you raise the price of employment, guess what happens? You get
less of it,” Boehner, an Ohio Republican, told reporters at a news
conference yesterday in Washington. “Why do we want to make it harder
for small employers to hire people?”
In his Feb. 12 speech to a joint session of Congress, Obama proposed
raising the hourly federal minimum wage to its highest inflation-
adjusted value since 1981, under President Ronald Reagan, according to
a White House fact sheet.
Obama’s speech was a “go-through-the motions laundry list of things”
he’d “like to do,” said South Dakota Senator John Thune, a member of
the chamber’s Republican leadership.
‘Won’t Pass’
“Minimum wage won’t pass the House, climate-change won’t pass the
House,” Thune said. “Those are things he would probably have a hard
time getting a lot of Democrats to vote for.”
The same is true for Obama’s call for guaranteeing pre- school
programs for all 4-year-olds, he said. “How do you pay for it?” he
said. By saying the programs wouldn’t “add a single dime to the
deficit” Obama is expecting Congress to raise taxes “to finance all
these new programs,” he said.
Six Senate Democrats seeking re-election next year in states that
supported Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney in 2012 “are
going to be hard pressed to vote for” new tax revenue beyond increases
that have been passed, Thune said.
The president also urged Congress to pass immigration legislation and
stricter gun-control measures and asked for $50 billion in
infrastructure spending.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell called Obama’s speech a
“liberal boilerplate that any Democratic lawmaker could have given at
any time in recent memory.”
“He advocated tax reform, but mostly as a way to increase the size of
government, not as a way to increase our competitiveness,” McConnell,
a Kentucky Republican, said in a floor speech. “He spoke of workers’
minimum wages, instead of their maximum potential.”
The speaker’s comments on Obama’s proposal to raise the hourly minimum
wage to $9 from $7.25 by the end of 2015 reflected a longstanding
Republican argument that such increases only depress employment among
young and low-skilled workers.
The last federal minimum-wage increase was in 2009, the first year of
Obama’s presidency, though it came out of a 2007 law signed by
President George W. Bush. A new increase would affect an estimated 15
million people. Obama also suggested making the minimum wage rise with
the cost of living.
Boehner signaled an increase had little prospect of passing the
Republican-controlled House.
“A lot of people who are being paid the minimum wage are being paid
that because they come to the workforce with no skills and this makes
it harder for them to acquire the skills they need in order to climb
that ladder successfully,” Boehner said.
Representative Jack Kingston, Georgia Republican, said a minimum-wage
measure would “have a chance” if it is accompanied by a “business
package of tax credits and expensing” rules to help small businesses.
Obama needs to make “a good argument of here’s how we can grow jobs
and help small business,” he said in an interview.
LAUGH..LAUGH..LAUGH..
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